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Reader Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
- The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed…
- A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there…
- Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
- Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a…
- I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
- There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of…
- Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in…
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- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft
- The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams
- Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! — Charles Baudelaire